TY - JOUR U1 - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel A1 - Bochnak, M. Ryan A1 - Hohaus, Vera A1 - Mucha, Anne T1 - Variation in tense and aspect, and the temporal interpretation of complement clauses JF - Journal of Semantics N2 - In this paper, we investigate the temporal interpretation of propositional attitude complement clauses in four typologically unrelated languages: Washo (language isolate), Medumba (Niger-Congo), Hausa (Afro-Asiatic), and Samoan (Austronesian). Of these languages, Washo and Medumba are optional-tense languages, while Hausa and Samoan are tenseless. Just like in obligatory-tense languages, we observe variation among these languages when it comes to the availability of so-called simultaneous and backward-shifted readings of complement clauses. For our optional-tense languages, we argue that a Sequence of Tense parameter is active in these languages, just as in obligatory-tense languages. However, for completely tenseless clauses, we need something more. We argue that there is variation in the degree to which languages make recourse to res-movement, or a similar mechanism that manipulates LF structures to derive backward-shifted readings in tenseless complement clauses. We additionally appeal to cross-linguistic variation in the lexical semantics of perfective aspect to derive or block certain readings. The result is that the typological classification of a language as tensed, optionally tensed, or tenseless, does not alone determine the temporal interpretation possibilities for complement clauses. Rather, structural parameters of variation cross-cut these broad classes of languages to deliver the observed cross-linguistic picture. KW - Attributsatz KW - Tempus KW - Aspekt KW - Kontrastive Linguistik Y1 - 2019 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-93034 UR - https://academic.oup.com/jos/article/36/3/407/5532629?searchresult=1 SN - 0167-5133 SS - 0167-5133 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffz008 DO - https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffz008 VL - 36 IS - 3 SP - 407 EP - 452 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER -